Wholeness in Motion™ is a means to experience and Know your wholeness within you and within the world. This recognition of your own deep interwoven nature is a foundation for:
  • thriving in your pursuits.
  • healing injury and pain.
  • accessing your joy.
Wholeness in Motion™ is part of an ancient conversation about human nature woven with new paradigms for understanding how we work. How do you understand your:
  • Well-being
  • Architecture (Structure)
  • Function (Coordination of action-movement)
  • Adaptation (Learning)
The more accurate your perspective the more access you'll have to clarity, ease, freedom and empowerment.
The Wholeness in Motion™ is a pedagogy for the 21st century.
      It is an approach to:
  • Align your teaching strategies with the way the human system works.
  • Set-up well-being, safety by orienting as beings that are part of nature.
  • Shift frustration, anxiety or worry to clarity and calm.
  • Transform effort, strain in moving to light, lively mobility.
  •  Experiencing your current capabilities rather than always try to improve/change.
  • Empower yourself and your students.
  • Ease common chronic physical pain such as knee pain, back pain, shoulder pain.
New paradigms demand new approaches.
Change your perspective, change your life.
The Language of Wholeness™ is like learning any language -- but this one is not foreign or new. It is your innate language of sensation that points you toward connection, agency, clarity, joy. It is like getting 3-D glasses -- suddenly you experience a new dimension of what has been right in front of you all the time. This language of wholeness opens you to a way of seeing the world beyond the words of the language.
Join me for open workshops  in Ontario this fall:
The Language of Wholeness
- Embodying Your Art -
When: Saturday, October 19th, 2019     Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm   Location: The Button Factory  25 Regina St. Waterloo Ontario
Wholeness in Motion Class in Toronto
When: Wednesday, October 30, 2019  Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT  Location: 88 Yorkville Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5R 1B9

Register for  Autumn 2019 on-line classes
Wholeness in Twelve! Early Bird Registration Ends September 15th for the Autumn 12 week series.
Register Now!Wholeness in Twelve
NEW OPTIONS INCLUDE YEARLY MEMBERSHIP, 12 WEEK PACKAGE OR JUST RECORDINGS!
This is a format for busy lives. Twelve minute classes, three times a week! Check it out and join!! INFO
November 5th 6to 9 Central is our next LearningMethods™ Class! Join now. This method of inquiry is the core tool is powerful tool for clarity thru inquiry. INFO
Introduction to Sound Music Education - This is a 12 lesson on-line course through the Center for Sound Music Education. It gives you a solid foundation in the Language of Wholeness applied to Music. It is the closest to book on this material as I have available so far.  There are courses using this material as the 'book' for their course, the on-line course is the weekly assignment.  Contact me directly if you are interested in using this for you course.   INFO
Language of Wholeness Summer Workshop - Setting Dates for 2020.  INFO

David Gorman's Anatomy of Wholeness™   follow-up workshop for Voice and past Recordings

This upcoming workshop is by demand after the two fabulous, information rich workshops we had this spring with David on the Suspension System he describes in his Anatomy of Wholeness work. (see below). It became clear that if what he is saying is true, then much of how we describe breathing and voice is profoundly effected. The questions just came pouring out. People asked for a follow-up time to ask questions and clarify what this means for voice teaching. If you want to get in on the this class you can register on my website.

The prerequisite is that you do need to have taken the two classes recorded this spring or the equivalent experience with David before this workshop. The classes were recorded so you can access them and join this workshop. The spring recordings are now $80 each or $150 for both.

The upcoming on-line workshop will be Saturday November 9th, 9 to 11:00 AM Central time (10 to noon eastern). It will be $80.00. If you can't take it live you can access a recording within a few days.  To register please email me at babette@lightnermethod.com. You may pay below or send me a check.

This past spring I asked   David Gorman  to give two on-line workshops for Language of Wholeness Apprentice group and the Wholeness in Twelve membership. His insights on human structure, function, learning and wholeness are the foundation for my work. I opened theses workshope up to the public for a small fee.  They are now available as recordings and are the prerequisite for future workshops with David. If you are interested in getting access to them please contact me at babette@lightnermethod.com. The current fee is more aligned with Gorman's normal class fee of $80.00 per class or $150 for both.

Part 1 - The first workshop covered the Elastic Suspension System which allows us to be fully supported (stability) and completely free (mobility) with an extra bonus that springs us into action for free... This is the foundation of the Wholeness in Motion™.  Even if you have a sense of this territory there is nothing like hearing it from David and seeing all his illustrations. I've heard this material 20 times and I still have breath-taking moments. I can hardly wait! \

Part 2 - The second workshop takes the foundation of the 1st part and expands it to include the double-spiral system of outer muscles which tie together the suspension system with breathing and locomotion into a coordinated whole. This is so useful!

David Gorman Workshop

2019 Courses:
VoiceCare Network Summer Courses - BodyMind and Voice, July 11 - 18th and Conducting Gesture and Voice, July 21 - 28th. St John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. INFO

In the News: I had a wonderful time working Cantiamo Choirs in September 2017 in Ottawa. I am heading back this coming September.
Here's a lovely story about the work: Cantiamo
Here's a link to an article about a workshop for High School Choir I did at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle, Maine. Article Link


Enjoy the most recent Wholeness in Motion letter and past letters here: LINK  Read Bird Feeder Dram and other stories and a new article What I Wish I Had Learned in Middle School. For links to past journals go to the resource page.

Architecture/Structure

Your Elastic Suspension System
A buoyant, sprung design

Free yourself.
Move with ease.
Be empowered in your body.
Liberate from the posture & alignment paradigm.
Teach the most current structural paradigm.

Coordination/Function

Your Coordinating System
Your other-than-consciousness organizes your actions.

How you do what you do.
Improve skill acquisition
Learn how to get out of your own way.
Let your system work for you.
Enhance  performance in all areas of life.
Learn tools to scaffold your learning and teaching based on the current motor-learning and neuro-science paradigms.

Adaptation/Learning

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Your Learning System
Learning happens.

At every moment your system is learning and adapting.

Rediscover the joy of learning.

Take the wrong and right out of learning; bring clarity into learning.

Gain tools to set up discovery processes in your classroom.
Teach so your students can learn.
Facilitate independent learners.